Turkey Meatballs: Polpettine di Tacchino
Turkey Meatballs: Polpettine di Tacchino requires roughly 3 hours and 35 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 4 servings with 1058 calories, 63g of protein, and 47g of fat each. This recipe covers 49% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up pepper, bread crumbs, parsley leaves, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the bread crumbs you could follow this main course with the Chocolate Banana Bread as a dessert.
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the turkey, pork, bread crumbs, milk, garlic, eggs, rosemary, chile flakes and salt and pepper and mix with hands until just combined. Form into 5-ounce balls and place in a shallow casserole. Roast in the oven until dark golden brown. Set aside.
Reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F.
Meanwhile, in a large oven-proof skillet, heat the olive oil over high heat.
Add the onions and garlic and cook over medium heat until well browned.
Add the chili flakes and salt and pepper, to taste.
Add the rosemary and red wine and stir until the wine is reduced by half.
Add the tomatoes and simmer for 15 minutes.
Add the meatballs, transferring to a large container if necessary, and cook in the oven 2 1/2 hours.
Serve in shallow bowls with the sauce, topped with the parsley leaves.